My latest letter to Senator Bennett
Senator Bennett,
A member of your staff called me last week asking what kind of assistance he could render us in our application for my wife Liliana to be allowed to work and become a permanent resident. I have some additional information on the case.
Our I-765 Application for Employment Authorization was rejected on August 20th for being expired (even though the form itself said it expired August 31st). The latest form on the USCIS website is indeed a newer revision, but also says it expires August 31st, 2008.
The woman I spoke to at the USCIS today assured me that although the former paper was rejected for being expired when it hadn’t expired yet, this one would not be rejected, even though it actually *has* expired.
Additionally, the USCIS says we need to have the original form they sent us for Liliana’s fingerprinting session in order to reschedule that appointment. However, the reason we did not make the appointment is because they mailed the notice to the wrong address. Last week, a woman told me she would fax me a copy of the old notice and re-mail it to us as well, but we have not received any fax and the USCIS cannot confirm where it has sent anything.
Please let me know if you have made any headway on our case, and if you can find out what is going on with the form I-765–somehow I find it hard to trust them when they say this expired form will still be accepted.
We really are trying our very best to have Liliana do everything legitimately, but it’s very tempting to just buy a stolen social security number off the street. It would be much faster, cheaper, and less stressful than actually working with the immigration office. And having just taken on some additional debt to help with the reconstruction of Liliana’s family home in Peru, we desperately need additional income from her employment.
Thank you again,
Ben Dilts
801-687-3450
PO Box 1854
Park City, UT 84060